Publisher's Note: Error in section: Questioning the Argument That Health Aid Leads to Reduced Government Investment in Health

Using Lu and colleagues' data on government health spending and Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) data on DAH [8], we replicated their results and found that the linear relationship between DAH and government health expenditure from domestic sources is lost when country-years in which World Health Organization (WHO) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimates differ by 10-fold or more are removed, when a small set of implausible data points are removed, and when restricting the sample to eliminate those countries that receive very little DAH as a percentage of GDP.http://plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001214#article1.body1.sec2.p5

There was an error in the final paragraph of this section. The correct sentence is: Using Lu and colleagues' data on government health spending and Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) data on DAH [8], we approximated their results and found that the OLS relationship between DAH and government health expenditure from domestic sources is lost[…]